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Morning Edition

Every weekday for over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has taken listeners around the country and the world with four hours of multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge... more...

Nova "Sand Wars"

Sand Wars is a surprising investigation into one of earth's most consumed natural resources: something most would consider inexhaustible. Sunday, August 2 at 10:00 PM on WUSF TV.

WUSF News

Conservation groups want a judge to shoot down the return of bear hunting in Florida and to halt the pending sale of bear-hunting permits.
With permits for this fall's hunt going on sale Monday, the Seminole County-based group Speak Up Wekiva filed a lawsuit in Leon County circuit court Friday challenging the constitutionality of the Florida Fish...

Florida Matters

When it comes to children, the definition of homeless includes more children than you may think. Under the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, children who are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camp grounds... more...

University Beat

Living away from home for the first time can be tough for some college students. But the University of South Florida hopes to ease that transition with its Living Learning Communities, or LLC’s for short. We take a tour of some of them on University Beat on WUSF TV.

Special News Reports

Back in 2012, four explorers spent 100 days walking and kayaking 1,000 miles up the length of Florida, from the tip of the Everglades to the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. The mission – to publicize the need to connect the state’s remaining wild areas. This year, the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition is back. Three of the members have reunited....

Health News Florida is the only news publication dedicated to covering health issues in the nation’s third largest state. We hold health care policy makers, powerbrokers and practitioners accountable. And our independent reporting, online and on public radio, emphasizes how issues of cost, quality and health care access affect all Floridians.

Classical WSMR

Award winning pianist Stephen Hough recently performed with the Sarasota Orchestra and, between rehearsals, he sat down to chat with June. You may eavesdrop on their enlightening conversation, which covers everything from the superstar pianist’s career to poetry and, of course, the great music he plays.
(photo: Andrew Crowley)
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All Night Jazz

Guitarist Kenny Burrell has been called a “cool, controlled romantic” whose textured playing is “subtle yet sensual, meditative, exultant, wry, and intimate.” He may well be one of the most lyrical guitarists on the jazz scene. In fact, he was Duke Ellington’s favorite improviser on the guitar. Burrell delights on this 1993 Piano Jazz with a solo of “‘Round Midnight.” He joins McPartland for “Don...more...